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Year 10 Curriculum

Art

TermCurriculum
AutumnDuring this term students will develop a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Art and how to work and think as an artist.
Learning aim and context:
• Mind Mapping and creating a Mood Board as an inspirational starting point on Junk Food.
• Artist research and its influence and its importance.
• Introduction to 3D junk food sculpture with acrylic. Introduction to plasterwork and the use of textiles and mixed media. The use of surface texture in Art.
• Observation drawing as a tool and a starting point.
• Lettering and the use of text in expressive Art.
• Abstract and Conceptual Art in principle and practice.


The main assessment task(s) will look at:
• Develop a final piece that best communicates the understanding of the knowledge and techniques that have been studied 3D and 2D.
SpringDuring the first half of this term, students will continue to experiment, develop and refine the Junk food project in 3D and 2D formats.

The second half of this term students will continue to develop a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Art and how to work and think as an artist.
Students will be expected to develop a unit of coursework in response to natural forms by:
• Using observation drawing and photography as a tool and a starting point.
• Artist research and its influence and its importance.
• Experimenting with mixed media art forms, using a variety of everyday materials to create detailed studies of natural forms.


The main assessment task(s) will look at:
• Develop a final piece that best communicates the understanding of the knowledge and techniques that have been studied 3D and 2D.
Summer During this term, students will continue to develop their natural forms project and a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Art and how to work and think as an artist.

The main assessment task(s) will look at:
Completion of the natural form project and preparation for the Y10 Mock exam.

Summer term 2- Preparation for the Y11 Portfolio. Students, are expected to collate, develop, modify and refine work to a higher standard producing a portfolio of only their strongest work, which is 60% of their final level.

Students will be given Summer Holiday work to complete for the beginning of year 11

BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

TermCourse
Autumn TermComponent 1 – Exploring User Interface Design Principles and Project Planning Techniques

• Investigating user interface design for individuals and organisations
• Using project planning techniques to plan and design a user interface

Assignment 1 and 2 – Internally assessed
Spring TermComponent 1 - Exploring User Interface Design Principles and Project Planning Techniques

• Develop and review a user interface

Assignment 3 – Internally assessed
Summer TermComponent 2 - Collecting, Presenting and Interpreting Data

• Investigating the role and impact of using data on individuals and organisations

Assignment 1 – Internally assessed

BTEC Tech Award Level 1/Level 2 in Enterprise (1 GCSE)

Digital Jersey BTEC Tech Award Level 1/Level 2 in Enterprise (1 GCSE)

TermCourse
Autumn TermAutumn Component 1: Exploring Enterprises

Learning Aim A and B:
•Skills and mindsets of entrepreneurs
•Characteristics of enterprises (purpose, size, scale, format)
•Meeting customer needs
•Competitor behaviour
•Primary and secondary market research

Assignment 1 (20% final grade):
Local Enterprises

Meet the Entrepreneur event November/December (all students)
Digital Jersey:
Entrepreneur presentations
Business formats Jersey Business

Spring Term
Component 1: Exploring Enterprises

Learning Aim C:
• Measurements of success
• Internal and external factors affecting businesses
• SWOT and PEST analysis

Assignment 1 resubmission

Assignment 2 (10%):
Internal and External factors

Assignment 2 resubmission
Summer TermSummer Component 3: Promotion and Finance for Enterprise (examination unit 40% final grade)

Learning Aim A – Promotion :
• Advertising methods
• B2C and B2B promotions
• Target market
• Market segmentation
• Factors affecting promotions

 Child Development

TermCurriculum
Autumn TermIntroduction to child development. Learning throughout this term will include:
• Preparing for a newborn baby.
• Roles and responsibilities of parents
• Factors to consider when planning to have children

Students will also be doing learning that supports them in completing their first 2 pieces of R019 coursework. This includes:

Coursework 1: Essential items needed for children aged 0-1 (feeding, sleeping, clothing, travel)
Coursework 2: Essential items needed for children ages 1-5 (feeding, sleeping, clothing, travel)

Coursework 1 and 2 started in the Autumn term will due by the February half term.
Spring TermStudents will be doing learning that supports them in preparation for their R018 exam. This includes:

• The structure and function of the male and female reproductive system
• How reproduction takes place (sex education)
• To recognise and evaluate methods of contraception
• The signs and symptoms of pregnancy
• The importance of antenatal and parenting classes
• Routine checks carried out at antenatal clinics
• The choices available for delivery
• The difference between home and hospital births
• The stages of labour, methods of delivery and pain relief

Students will complete a mock exam which tests them on this learning and prepares them for the real exam in Y11.
Summer TermLearning throughout this term will include:

• Nutritional requirements for children ages 0-5
• Nutritional needs and how to keep healthy before and during pregnancy
• Pre-conception health
• Stages of weaning
• Understanding reasons why women breast/bottle/combination feed

Students will be doing learning that supports them in completing their second 2 pieces of R019 coursework. This includes:

Coursework 3: Government guidelines to healthy eating
Coursework 4: Breastfeeding vs. Bottle-feeding

Coursework 3 and 4 started in the Summer term will due by end of Year 10. Intervention will be put in place for any students who have missed the deadline.


Drama

TermCurriculum
Autumn TermScripted performanceStudents work in small groups to research, stage, direct and perform a twelve minute extract to a live audience showing their knowledge and understanding of ‘text in performance’.
Spring TermDevisingIn groups, students respond to stimulus to create their own performance to a live audience. Students participate in a series of devising workshops where they explore and develop performance styles, skills and techniques.
Summer TermMonologuesEach student studies an extract from a play which includes a monologue. As a class we look at exploring each character and each play text through a series of workshops. Each students performs to camera a three minute monologue which has been researched, staged and rehearsed.

English

TEXT, SKILLS AND FOCI
Autumn TermGCSE Novel Study: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
GCSE Language Skill: Narrative Writing
GCSE Poetry Study: Conflict Anthology
Spring TermGCSE Play Study: An Inspector Calls
Summer TermGCSE Shakespeare Recap: Romeo and Juliet
GCSE Language Skill: Responses to Non-Fiction

Geography

TermCurriculum
Students are studying AQA GCSE Geography. Students will study a variety of physical (Paper 1) and human (Paper 2) Geography topics. There are two field trips in Year 10 to meet the criteria for Paper 3.
Autumn Term (1st half)Paper 1 - Living World (Ecosystems, Rainforests, Hot deserts)
Autumn Term (2nd half)Paper 2 - Urban environments. LIC Case study Mumbai
Spring Term (1st half)Paper 2 - Resource Management
Spring Term (2nd half)Paper 1 -UK Physical environments - Rivers
Paper 3 - Physical Geography field work - Rivers
Summer Term (1st half)Paper 2 - Urban Environments
Summer Term (2nd half)Paper 3 - Urban Geography fieldwork - St Helier

History

TermCurriculum
Autumn Term (1st Half)Paper 1 – Renaissance & Industrial Medicine
Autumn Term (2nd Half)Paper 1 – Modern Medicine & Western Front Environment Study
Spring Term (1st Half)Paper 2 – Elizabethan Government
Spring term (2nd Half)Paper 2 – Elizabethan Religious Challenges
Summer Term (1st Half)Paper 2 – Elizabethan Exploration & British America Introduction
Summer Term (2nd Half)Paper 2 – Problems in British America

Maths

TermHigher or FoundationCurriculum
Autumn TermHigherNumber
Upper and Lower bounds
Percentages
Linear equations
Inequalities and formulae
More graphs and functions
Autumn TermFoundationUsing a calculator
Percentages
Equations
Inequalities
Spring TermHigherQuadratic and simultaneous equations
Proportion
Transformation of functions
Area
Volume
Congruence and similarity
Spring TermFoundation Quadratic graphs
Formulae
Angles and 2 dimensional shapes
Circle

Summer TermHigherCircle geometry
Constructions and loci
Transformations
Pythagoras Theorem and trigonometry 1
Pythagoras Theorem and trigonometry 2
Vectors
Summer TermFoundation3 dimensional shapes
Constructions and loci
Transformations
Pythagoras Theorem

Media

Unit
Curriculum
1 Media LanguageNarrative theory
Context – Denotation and connotation
Semiotics
Mise-En-Scene
Values and Beliefs
Intertextuality
2 Media RepresentationMediation
Language, Representation and Context
Stereotypes
Effects Debate
Mediated Representations
3 Media AudienceAudience History and Consumption
Audience Identity – Demographics, Ethnography – Psychographics
Profiling
Uses and Gratification Model
Reception Theory

Modern Foreign Languages – French

TermCurriculum
Autumn Term (1st half)Self, family, where you live
Autumn Term (2nd half)Free time, customs and festivals
Spring Term (1st half)Healthy living
Spring Term (2nd
half)
School and my studies
Summer Term (1st half)Jobs, future plans and education post 16
Summer Term (2nd
half)
Work experience and end of year assessments.

Modern Foreign Languages – Spanish

TermCurriculum
Autumn Term (1st Half)Basics, self and family
Autumn Term (2nd Half)Where you live
Spring Term (1st Half)Free time, social issues and healthy living
Spring Term (2nd Half)Life at school and my studies
Summer Term (1st Half)Education post 16
Summer Term (2nd Half)Marriage and partnerships, end of year assessments.

Music

Term
Autumn TermDuring this term students will study:
• Unit 1: The Music Industry
• Unit 2: Managing a Musical Product
The main assessment task (s) will look at:
• To prepare research material for the external exam in Y11
• Developing the necessary skills for effective live performance




Spring Term
During this term students will study:
• Unit 1: The Music Industry
• Unit 2: Managing a Musical Product
The main assessment task (s) will look at:
• To prepare research material for the external exam in Y11
• Preparing and Creating a Musical Product
Summer TermDuring this term students will study:
• Unit 1: The Music Industry
• Unit 5: Introducing Music Performance
The main assessment task (s) will look at:
• To prepare research material for the external exam in Y11
• Developing the necessary skills for effective live performance



PE

In key Stage 4 core PE students will be given the choice of what activities they would like to participate in, each activity will last for 4 lessons. Students are encouraged to engage in a wide variety of activities, this will ensure students continue to develop their skills from Key stage 3.

 

Photography

TermCurriculum
AutumnDuring this term, students will develop a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Photography and how to work and think as a photographer.
Learning aim and context:
• Mind Mapping and creating a mood board as an inspirational starting point.
• Composition and structure. How/when/where to take a photograph.
• How to use a digital camera on manual settings. How to take a photograph using various lighting conditions.
• Artist research and its influence and its importance.
• Introduction to Adobe Photoshop as our ‘dark room’.
• How to present, mount and display your work as a professional.
The main assessment task(s) will look at:
• Develop a final piece that best communicates the understanding of the knowledge and techniques that have been studied in letters in photography and portrait photography.
SpringDuring this term, students, will continue to develop a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Photography and how to work and think as photographer.
Students will be expected to develop a unit of coursework in response to texture, shape and pattern in photography. Students will then be expected to edit, experiment with materials and a produce quality final pieces using knowledge gained from the Autumn term.
SummerDuring this term students will continue to develop a thorough understanding of the assessment criteria used in GCSE Photography and how to work and think as a photographer.

Students, will be expected to develop a unit of coursework in response to landscapes in photography. They are given a minimum of 7 weeks to develop a power-point in response to a GCSE exam question. Students, will then be expected to edit, experiment with materials and a produce a final piece during a 9 hour timed period.

• Preparation for the Y11 Portfolio. Students, are expected to collate, develop, modify and refine work to a higher standard producing a portfolio of only their strongest work, which is 60% of their final level.

• Students, will be given Summer Holiday work to complete for the beginning of year 11.

Psychology

TermCurriculum
Autumn first half Term Criminal psychology
Autumn second half term
Psychological problems
Spring first half termDevelopment
Spring second half term
Sleep and dreaming
Spring first half term Memory
Spring second half term
Memory and Research Methods

Science

Year 10 (Commencement of two-year GCSE programme)
Current Y10 students studied a three-year KS3 programme and are therefore studying in Y10 some of the content that is now covered during the Y9 foundation year. Students are encouraged to make use of EzyEducation http://www.ezyeducation.co.uk to support their learning at home. The major topics covered within the current Y10 programme are listed below.
BiologyChemistryPhysics
• Key principles (microscopes, cells, enzymes and transporting substances)
• Sexual and asexual reproduction
• DNA and inheritance
• Variation, evolution and the work of Charles Darwin
• Selective breeding an genetically modified organisms
• Health and disease
• The immune system
• Key Concepts;
- Atomic structure
- Bonding
- The Periodic Table
• States of Matter
• Chemical Changes.
• Extracting metals and equilibria.
• Separate Chemistry 1:
- Transition metals
- Molar Gas
- The Haber Process
- Accurate Titrations
• Key principles (units, data, graphs, conversions and standard notation)
• Motion and forces
• Conservation of energy
• Wave types and properties
• Light and the electromagnetic spectrum
• Radioactivity
• Astronomy
• Forces and energy

Religious Studies

Students are studying EDEXCEL Specification B.

TermCurriculum
Autumn Term (1st Half)Christianity - Christian Beliefs
Autumn Term (2nd Half)Islam - Muslim Beliefs
Spring Term (1st Half)Christianity - Marriage
Spring term (2nd Half)Christianity - Christian Life
Summer Term (1st Half)Islam – Crime and Punishment
Summer Term (2nd Half)Islam – Crime and Punishment
Y10 Exam

VCERT Level 2 Certificate in Business and Enterprise (1 GCSE)

TermCourse
Autumn TermAutumn Component 1: Exploring Enterprises

Learning Aim A and B:
•Skills and mindsets of entrepreneurs
•Characteristics of enterprises (purpose, size, scale, format)
•Meeting customer needs
•Competitor behaviour
•Primary and secondary market research

Assignment 1 (20% final grade):
Local Enterprises

Meet the Entrepreneur event November/December (all students)
Digital Jersey:
Entrepreneur presentations
Business formats Jersey Business

Spring Term
Component 1: Exploring Enterprises

Learning Aim C:
• Measurements of success
• Internal and external factors affecting businesses
• SWOT and PEST analysis

Assignment 1 resubmission

Assignment 2 (10%):
Internal and External factors

Assignment 2 resubmission
Summer TermSummer Component 3: Promotion and Finance for Enterprise (examination unit 40% final grade)

Learning Aim A – Promotion :
• Advertising methods
• B2C and B2B promotions
• Target market
• Market segmentation
• Factors affecting promotions

 

 

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